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"The year is 1962. More than a decade will pass before personal computers emerge from the garages of Silicon Valley, and a full thirty years before the Internet explosion of the 1990s. The word computer still has an ominous tone, conjuring up the image of a huge, intimidating device hidden away in an overlit, air-conditioned basement, relentlessly processing punch cards for some large institution: them. Yet, sitting in a nondescript office in Robert McNamara's Pentagon, a quiet forty-seven-year-old civilian is already planning the revolution that will change forever the way computers are perceived. Somehow, the occupant of that office - a former MIT psychologist named J.C.R. Licklider - has seen a future in which computers will empower individuals, instead of forcing them into rigid conformity. He is almost alone in his conviction that computers can become not just superfast calculating machines but joyful machines: tools that will serve as new media of expression, inspirations to creativity, and gateways to a vast world of on line information. And now he is determined to use the Pentagon's money to make that vision a reality."--
"The year is 1962. More than a decade will pass before personal computers emerge from the garages of Silicon Valley, and a full thirty years before the Internet explosion of the 1990s. The word computer still has an ominous tone, conjuring up the image of a huge, intimidating device hidden away in an overlit, air-conditioned basement, relentlessly processing punch cards for some large institution: them. Yet, sitting in a nondescript office in Robert McNamara's Pentagon, a quiet forty-seven-year-old civilian is already planning the revolution that will change forever the way computers are perceived. Somehow, the occupant of that office - a former MIT psychologist named J.C.R. Licklider - has seen a future in which computers will empower individuals, instead of forcing them into rigid conformity. He is almost alone in his conviction that computers can become not just superfast calculating machines but joyful machines: tools that will serve as new media of expression, inspirations to creativity, and gateways to a vast world of on line information. And now he is determined to use the Pentagon's money to make that vision a reality."--
Über den Autor
M. Mitchell Waldrop is a freelance writer and editor. He earned a masters in journalism and a PhD in elementary particle physics at the University of Wisconsin. He was previously a writer and West Coast bureau chief for Chemical and Engineering News, senior writer at Science, editorial page and features editor at Nature, and worked in media affairs for the National Science Foundation. He is also the author of Man-Made Minds (Walker, 1987), a book about artificial intelligence, and Complexity (Simon & Schuster, 1992), a book about the Santa Fe Institute and the new sciences of complexity. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Amy E. Friedlander.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue: Tracy’s dad
Chapter 1: Missouri boys
Chapter 2: The last transition
Chapter 3: New kinds of people
Chapter 4: The freedom to make mistakes
Chapter 5: The tale of the fig tree and the wasp
Chapter 6: The phenomena surrounding computers
Chapter 7: The intergalactic network
Chapter 8: Living in the future
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Addendum
Chapter 1: Missouri boys
Chapter 2: The last transition
Chapter 3: New kinds of people
Chapter 4: The freedom to make mistakes
Chapter 5: The tale of the fig tree and the wasp
Chapter 6: The phenomena surrounding computers
Chapter 7: The intergalactic network
Chapter 8: Living in the future
Chapter 9: Lick’s kids
AcknowledgmentsNotes
Bibliography
Index
Addendum
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
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Genre: | Informatik |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Buch |
ISBN-13: | 9781732265110 |
ISBN-10: | 1732265119 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Waldrop, M Mitchell |
Hersteller: | Stripe Matter, Inc. |
Maße: | 234 x 162 x 37 mm |
Von/Mit: | M Mitchell Waldrop |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 25.09.2018 |
Gewicht: | 1,031 kg |
Über den Autor
M. Mitchell Waldrop is a freelance writer and editor. He earned a masters in journalism and a PhD in elementary particle physics at the University of Wisconsin. He was previously a writer and West Coast bureau chief for Chemical and Engineering News, senior writer at Science, editorial page and features editor at Nature, and worked in media affairs for the National Science Foundation. He is also the author of Man-Made Minds (Walker, 1987), a book about artificial intelligence, and Complexity (Simon & Schuster, 1992), a book about the Santa Fe Institute and the new sciences of complexity. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, Amy E. Friedlander.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue: Tracy’s dad
Chapter 1: Missouri boys
Chapter 2: The last transition
Chapter 3: New kinds of people
Chapter 4: The freedom to make mistakes
Chapter 5: The tale of the fig tree and the wasp
Chapter 6: The phenomena surrounding computers
Chapter 7: The intergalactic network
Chapter 8: Living in the future
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Addendum
Chapter 1: Missouri boys
Chapter 2: The last transition
Chapter 3: New kinds of people
Chapter 4: The freedom to make mistakes
Chapter 5: The tale of the fig tree and the wasp
Chapter 6: The phenomena surrounding computers
Chapter 7: The intergalactic network
Chapter 8: Living in the future
Chapter 9: Lick’s kids
AcknowledgmentsNotes
Bibliography
Index
Addendum
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
---|---|
Genre: | Informatik |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Buch |
ISBN-13: | 9781732265110 |
ISBN-10: | 1732265119 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Gebunden |
Autor: | Waldrop, M Mitchell |
Hersteller: | Stripe Matter, Inc. |
Maße: | 234 x 162 x 37 mm |
Von/Mit: | M Mitchell Waldrop |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 25.09.2018 |
Gewicht: | 1,031 kg |
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